“During that time I met Mark Fuller, who owns Sanctum On The Green. He asked me what I could do to change the place – at first I thought he wanted me to decorate the walls – then offered me my own restaurant.

“When I opened Luke’s Dining Room, I have to admit that my unique selling point was that I was just 18 years old,” he says.

So what does he cook at home? “I don’t,” he admits. “I manage the odd Pot Noodle. And I have a thing for Coco Pops. My mum’s too scared to cook for me! Besides, I prefer to eat out when I can because I’m always learning.”

His latest menu includes a mouth-watering Grandmother’s Trifle, inspired by those early days. “But it’s not the way gran made it,” he grins. “It’s tweaked. I don’t used tinned fruit and Rowntrees Jelly. There’s no Ambrosia either!”

Other signature dishes include pan-roasted scallops with mussel curry and mango, potato dumplings, mushroom and sun blush tomato ragu, and beef cooked for 13 hours in a water bath.

Next up at Luke’s Broadway will be live music nights, starting with a Hallowe’en themed evening. But Luke won’t be trick or treating – unless it’s Cadbury’s!

“The best chocolate in the world is Cadbury’s Dairy Milk by far,” he says. “You know when people spend about £20 on a bar of dark chocolate from the supermarket, they say it’s nice just because they feel they have to, because it was so expensive. But you notice, they never finish it!